Dual Loyalty
By Victor Mallet REVIEWS OF TWO BOOKS: The Samson Option: Israel,
America and the Bomb by Seymour Hersh, and Dangerous Liaison: The
Inside Story of the US-Israeli Covert Relationship by Andrew Cockburn
and Leslie Cockburn

A Special Relationship
By David Schoenbaum. Review of DANGEROUS LIAISON The Inside Story of the
U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship. By Andrew Cockburn and Leslie
Cockburn.

In
Bed With the Israelis? DANGEROUS LIAISON: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, By Andrew and Leslie Cockburn September 01, 1991 | Dan Raviv | Raviv, a
CBS News correspondent based in London, is co-author of "Every Spy a
Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence" (Houghton
Mifflin.)

Book Discussion On The Money And The Power: The Making Of Las Vegas The authors talked about their book, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, published by Alfred A. Knopf. They say that Las Vegas is controlled by an alliance of gamblers, gangsters and government, placing the region in the national spotlight in recent years. After their presentation the authors answered questions from members of the audience. Attorney General Del Papa served as moderator.

The superpower of crime. I had just returned from a vacation in June 1998 when I found out how dangerous it is to investigate the Russian mob. Mike McCall, a top agent on the FBI's Russian Organized Crime Squad in Manhattan, called me with chilling news. "I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings," he said gently, "but the FBI has reliable information that a major Russian organized crime figure has taken out a contract on your life." Belgian journalist Alain Lallemand, an expert on Russian organized crime who has suffered through hair-raising attempts on his life, once told me that the Russian mob would leave journalists alone as long they didn't come between the mobsters and their money. In a series of revelatory articles about the growing threat of the Russian mob in such publications as New York, Details, and Vanity Fair, I had apparently crossed this dangerous line. ...

One politician already ensnared in the web of organized crime is Russian-born Natan Sharansky, the head of the Russian Yisrael Ba-Aliya and minister of the interior in the government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Because of his resistance to the Soviet regime and his strong and open identification with Judaism, he suffered a long, brutal confinement in the Gulag before international pressure led to his release. In Israel, the charismatic dissident was lionized by the Jewish people, and he became a power broker for the large and growing Russian emigré community, whom he helped integrate into a rigid society that sometimes seemed jealous of the talented new Russians.
However, Sharansky has publicly admitted that his party has accepted campaign contributions from NORDEX president Grigori Loutchansky. Officials from the U.S. Congress, the State Department, and the CIA pleaded with Sharansky to sever his ties to Loutchansky. "We told Sharansky to stop taking money from Loutchansky," says Winer. "We told him about [Loutchansky's] MO: bribery, influence peddling, that he was a bridge between foreign governments and traditional organized crime."
Sharansky simply refused, arguing that he needed the money to resettle the tidal wave of Russian emigres. "When we warned Sharansky," says the congressional investigator, "to stop taking money from Loutchansky, he said, 'But where am I going to put them,'" referring to the huge influx of Russian Jewish refugees. '"How am I going to feed them? Find them jobs?'" He figures Loutchansky is just another source of income."Sharansky is very shrewd," the congressional investigator continued. "He knows better. It was a cynical [decision]. He did take money. Then he asked, 'Why shouldn't I?' The CIA warned him that Loutchansky was trying to buy influence through him and his party for [the] Russian Organized Crime/Russian government combine. We told Sharansky that Loutchansky is a major crook." (Sharansky declined to comment.)
Ignoring all the warnings, Sharansky introduced Loutchansky to Benjamin Netanyahu prior to Israel's 1996 national elections. The Israeli press reported that Netanyahu received $1.5 million in campaign contributions from Loutchansky, a charge the prime minister hotly denied. "The Likud is corrupt, and Bibi [Netanyahu] is disgusting," says Winer. "He's had meetings with Loutchansky and Kobzon—criminals promoting their own interests."
Kobzon's influence in Israel may exceed that of even Loutchansky and Mogilevich. "Kobzon has big [political] connections in Israel," says Leder. For instance, in January 1996, Kobzon was detained upon his arrival at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport "because of his ties to the Russian Mafiya," Labor Party Knesset member Moshe Shahal said in his cramped Knesset office in Jerusalem. Shahal, at the time the country's security minister, intended to send the mobster back to Russia, but then the phones started ringing in the chambers of high government ministries.
Kobzon's friends in Israel petitioned the minister of the interior, the minister of transportation, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who finally ordered the airport police to free Kobzon and let him enter the country. Peres, who was being pressed by the Russian ambassador, told Shahal that he relented to avoid a messy incident with the Russian government. (The following year, Kobzon flew to Israel in his private jet to pick up Marat Balagula's eldest daughter, who lives in Netanya, to bring her back to Moscow to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.)
With two decades of unimpeded growth, the Russian Mafiya has succeeded in turning Israel into its very own "mini-state," in which it operates with virtual impunity.
Although many in international law enforcement believe that Israel is by now so compromised that its future as a nation is imperiled, its government, inexplicably, has done almost nothing to combat the problem. In June 1996 Leder, then chief of Israeli police intelligence, prepared a three-page classified intelligence assessment that concluded: "Russian organized groups [had] become a strategic threat" to Israel's existence. He documented how they were infiltrating the nation's business, financial, and political communities. Shahal used the report to brief Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Shin Bet, Israel's FBI, and Mossad, and provided his own recommendations on how to uproot the Russian mob. Before Rabin had a chance to act on the plan, he was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish religious zealot in Tel Aviv following a peace rally. Shimon Peres subsequently set up an intra-agency intelligence committee on the Russian mob after reading Leder's report, but did little else. Leder's report was shelved by Netanyahu, according to Shahal.
"Israel is going to have to do something," says James Moody. "They could lose their whole country. The mob is a bigger threat than the Arabs."
Leder agrees: "We know how to deal with terrorist organizations. We know how to deal with external threats. This is a social threat. We as a society don't know how to handle it. It's an enemy among us."

Former Mafia-linked figure describes association with Trump On the 24th floor of Trump Tower, in an office two floors below Donald Trump, Felix Sater was trying to revive his career. The Russian-born businessman had already done a stint in prison for stabbing a man in the face with the stem of a margarita glass, and he was now awaiting sentencing for his role in a Mafia-orchestrated stock fraud scheme — all the while serving as a government informant on the mob and mysterious matters of national security. But Sater and his business partners had an idea: They would build Trump towers in U.S. cities and across the former Soviet bloc. Sater pitched it to Trump, who gave Sater’s company rights to explore projects in Moscow as well as in Florida and New York.

Real Estate Executive With Hand in Trump Projects Rose From Tangled Past It is a classic tale of reinvention, American style. Born in the Soviet Union in 1966, Felix H. Sater immigrated with his family to Brighton Beach when he was 8 years old. At 24 he was a successful Wall Street broker, at 27 he was in prison after a bloody bar fight, and at 32 he was accused of conspiring with the Mafia to launder money and defraud investors.(...) Mr. Sater was born in the Soviet Union, the son of Rachel and Mikhail Sater, according to public records, court testimony and the federal indictment. He has said his parents, who are Jewish, moved first to Israel, then to Baltimore and finally to New York in the early 1970s to escape “religious persecution.”

The Power Behind Sarah Palin, Michael Collins Piper: "Perhaps more disturbing was the revelation that the sordid political operative Dick Morris (...) was a key player in laying the stage for the until-then-obscure Palin’s introduction to the GOP. Morris was among another group of neocons—associated with the National Review magazine—who landed in Alaska on their own cruise just shortly after the Kristol-Weekly Standard clique held court. The New Yorker said that “according to several accounts . . . no connection made that day was more meaningful than the one struck between Palin and Dick Morris.” It is interesting the New Yorker should unveil the Palin-Morris connection resulting from the National Review stop-over in Alaska: S.I. Newhouse, publisher of The New Yorker, was a longtime and intimate friend of Morris’s cousin, devout pro-Israel political operative and “mob lawyer” Roy Cohn, who was also a close friend of National Review founder William F. Buckley, Jr. As far back as the mid-1950s—working with Cohn—Buckley was a godfather of the modern-day neoconservative movement, a transmogrification of the old-line Trotskyite communists (for strategic reasons) into a “new” brand of “conservative internationalism” in opposition to traditional American nationalism."

THE JUDAS GOATS: The Enemy Within, By Michael Collins Piper, p.162-163 What follows is the text (...) of a sworn statement that Hooker executed on September 30, 1954 outlining his findings about the role of the self-styled “American Jewish League Against Communism” and how it was manipulating then Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s efforts to investigate communism in high places in the American system. The affidavit reads:

(...) Mr. Marks stated that a lot of Jews called McCarthy an anti-Semite but little did they know that "he is the best friend the Jews ever had." [Hooker noted of McCarthy that "Eventually they destroyed him anyway when he started calling up Jewish Communists later on."—MCP.] Marks went on to say that "other investigations might have turned up Jews and McCarthy had been given credit for them, but that if we traced the record back, we would find that McCarthy actually did not call up a single Jew in that period when the heat was on the Jews." He later qualified these remarks by saying that "while McCarthy was operating as a temporary subcommittee under the Truman administration, he did not call up any Jews ; that when he once got himself elected as the chairman of the permanent investigating committee, in the new administration, he then began to call witnesses "as they came." [That is, whether the witnesses were "Jewish or not," according to Hooker—MCP.] Mr, Marks continued: "But that doesn't make much difference now because he accepted our own men to work right with him. For example, he accepted as his top man next to him our man

Roy Cohn, left, which was arranged through another of our men, George Sokolsky." If memory serves me correctly, Marks stated that Julius Kahn was also their man on the McCarthy committee, but who was now on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He definitely stated that David Schine was NOT with the AJLAC but that he was put there by "another group which I don't know about." Mr. Marks went on to say that "not only is McCarthy under our control but so are Jenner and Velde, who also took our men to work right with them. Benny Mandel and Robert Morris represent us on the Jenner Committee." He mentioned Robert Kunzig as "their man" for Velde. Marks also stated definitely that Professor Louis Budenz was under "their control" and one of "their men," and that he was working to take the "heat" off the Jews. [Budenz was a well-known "ex-communist" who became a leading figure
in the so-called anti-communist movement, key elements of which had come
under the control of the Zionist and Trotskyite elements. Hooker's
revelations explain why—MCP.]

Varied were the motives of the League’s founding, but one of them was self-protection. . . . Many of the intellectuals in America were Jewish. During the New Deal some had achieved high position. Moreover, Karl Marx himself was the son of a Jew who later became a Christian. To adopt the sane position, to resist unfair smears and the attempts of bigots to portray the Jew as pro-red, might only make people mad. Better to go on the offensive against the Communist menace itself. Such was the attitude of some Jews—or at least the excuse they offered their friends—as national hysteria built up in 1948. The possibility of the anti-Communism attack turning into a persecution of the Jews was very much on the minds of the government officials charged with prosecuting the alleged atom bomb spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. For that reason a Jewish judge was chosen, and the prosecuting staff selected to try the case was composed of Jews. One of their members was Roy Cohn. More than concern for the Jews was involved in the formation of the League, however. Anti-Communism offered both political and business opportunities. The League was formed at the home of Eugene Lyons, a right-wing author of note.Taking part in the first meeting were other right-wingers, including Louis Waldman, Lawrence Fertiz, Isaac Don Levine, and George Sokolsky. The prime mover was Alfred Kohlberg who, along with Lewis Rosenstiel, supplied most of the funds.

The unexpected defeat of Dewey in 1948 upset a good many people, and made it necessary for the American Jewish League Against Communism to revise its program. It needed a new political figure behind whom it could rally. Coincidentally, the league had come into possession of a one-hundred page FBI report on Communist influence on government. The report was originally leaked to an intelligence officer in the Pentagon with instructions to pass it on to leaders of the league . . . We have the word of none other than Roy Cohn that the secret FBI document was read, and conferences held, in New York and Washington. As Cohn put it, “a small group” took “upon itself the responsibility of getting the story across to America.” The League decided it should approach a senator rather than a representative. At a meeting in Washington in November 1949, a special committee of the league “sifted carefully through the roster of United States senators for one who might successfully undertake the task of educating his fellow Americans.” They narrowed the list down to four possibilities, all Republicans. In turn, each senator was given a look at the FBI report. Each was urged to go on the warpath. Each was promised financial support. The first three men on the list refused. The fourth took the document home and read it carefully. Next morning he called a member of the League and told him he was “buying the package.” That fourth senator was Joseph McCarthy.

THE JUDAS GOATS: The Enemy Within, by Michael Collins Piper, p.169 All of this, of course, is not to say that McCarthy was not sincere in his motives, but he was very clearly being manipulated by forces that were far beyond his comprehension. And the fact that his chief “advisor” was the ubiquitous Roy Cohn, who continued to play a major role as a Zionist “fixer” (at the same time doubling as an organized crime lawyer) points precisely toward those forces that were guiding McCarthy toward ultimate destruction.

Haredim look to Trump as a pro-Israel, traditionalist tough guy — emphasis on ‘guy’
NEW YORK (JTA) — American Jews are likely to vote for Hillary Clinton
in November, but American Jewry’s fastest-growing community is likely to
go the other way. A solid majority of haredi Orthodox Jews will vote
for Donald Trump, say experts and Republican operatives in the haredi
enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn. While poll data isn’t available on
the fervently Orthodox vote, observers say the haredim are attracted by
Trump’s hawkish foreign policy, pugnacious personality and image as a
successful businessman. It doesn’t hurt that he’s a man. “When you’re
fighting a war, you want someone who’s tough, who’s going to be on your
side,” said Heshy Friedman, a business consultant in Borough Park who
founded the group Jewish Democrats for Trump. “I don’t think he means
things literally. You need somebody who borderlines on going crazy.” The
haredi community in New York City and in the state has supported
Democrats in the past. Both Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo
have courted the haredi vote by ensuring social services for the poor
and promising not to intrude in communal affairs. Borough Park’s state
assemblyman, Dov Hikind, is a conservative Democrat. But unlike American
Jews in general, who have overwhelmingly voted Democrat in national
elections for a century, the haredi community has shifted Republican in
the past couple of decades as its numbers have grown, according to
Samuel Heilman, who has studied the community for decades as a
sociologist at Queens College of the City University of New York. The
haredi move rightward parallels a similar move among all American
Orthodox Jews, who include the less insular modern Orthodox community. A
recent poll of Florida Jews found that Orthodox voters there back Trump
by a 3-to-1 margin. “The haredi community clearly leans toward the
Republican Party,” said Hikind, who is undecided in the presidential
election. “Mostly it’s been Republican because of the sense that
Republicans are much closer to Israel, much friendlier to Israel.”
Haredim vote Republican, Heilman said, both to distinguish themselves
from less observant Jews and because they identify with the party’s
social conservatism. (...) Friedman, who also campaigned for Republican
presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, has been making the policy
case for Trump in Borough Park. A flier he posted in synagogues around
the neighborhood lists four reasons to support Trump: opposition to Iran
obtaining a nuclear bomb; support for Israeli West Bank settlement; his
pledge to nominate a conservative Supreme Court justice; and his
opposition to Syrian refugees entering the country. Friedman changed his
license plate to “TRUMP 17” in honor of the candidate’s would-be
inauguration year, and believes there is a “silent majority” of haredi
Jews who are too bashful to voice their support for Trump. He says
support for Trump is especially strong among young haredim, who use the
internet and have access to right-wing websites. “You have a whole new
generation of yeshiva kids who are right wing,” he said. “[Democrats]
are trying to destroy the religious community. These people have an
agenda, and when they start the fight, there’s always a reaction.”

Trump is in bed with certain Russians?
Felix Sater is Russian. Trump's friend Felix Sater launched the Fort
Lauderdale Trump Tower. courthousenews Felix Sater's father "is a
Russian Organized Crime boss." Donald Trump made $90 million dollar
profit on a Palm Beach mansion he sold to Dmitry Rybolovlev who is a
Russian Mobster, who was indicted for rubbing out his chief business
rival in what Russian news agency TASS called a “contract hit.” Donald
was pocketing $90 million of dirty cash from the Russian Mob. Donald
Trump, Dirty Money, and the Filthy Rich in Palm Beach. Giuliani, who
is backing Trump Michael Collins Piper, at American Free Press,
December 2007, writes about ' rudy giuliani godfather of the russian
mob' According to Piper: Giuliani closed down the local, mainly
Italian-American, mafias. This allowed certain foreign mafias to take
over. These foreign mafias were mainly Jewish and mainly from Russia
and Israel. "Several of Trump's businesses outside of Russia are
entangled with Russian financiers inside Putin's circle."

Xenophobia
in American Politics: The “Know Nothing Party” of the 1850s and the
Trump-Pence Neo-Fascist Republican Agenda for 2017 Le phénomène Trump n'est pas sans rappeler le mouvement
"Know Nothing" américain fin 19e siècle début 20e (je suis évidemment
pas le premier à faire ce lien). Doté
d'un journal et d'un parti, leur ligne était la haine anti-immigrés. On
se souvient de ce parti haineux xénophobe et radicalement
anti-immigration comme d'un parti protestant, anti-catholique
(anti-italien, anti-irlandais) et anti-juif. Mais c'était pas du tout
antijuif en réalité, puisque le juif Lewis Charles Levin (1er juif au
Congrès américain) dirigeait le journal du mouvement en plus d'être l'un
des fondateurs et Leaders du mouvement... Mais pourquoi donc personne
n'en parle? Encore le nom juif, ce nom maudit qui impose la chappe de
plomb! Rien à voir avec la rectitude politique tant décriée par les trumpiens, les soraIiens, les Martineau et les Bock-Côté!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Charles_Levinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
Lire cet extrait de Piper (The New Babylon, ch 7): When there was a great panic in 1837,
Rothschild agent Belmont negotiated large loans from the Rothschilds
on behalf of the U.S. debtor banks.“ In other words” according to
Birmingham, “he was able, thanks to the hugeness of the Rothschild
reservoir of capital, to start out in America operating his own Federal
Reserve System.” (And this long before the official establishment of
the Federal Reserve System in 1913!) (*)
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(*) During this period that there was extensive emigration by Roman
Catholics into the United States—particularly from Ireland—and the
truth is that well-settled Jewish interests saw this as a danger. In
fact, one of the leading bigots in America leading the fight against
immigration into the United States—particularly Irish Catholic
immigration—was a prominent Jewish American, Lewis Charles Levin.
Although history often tells us that the “Know Nothing” movement—the
Native American Party—was “led by Protestants” and “aimed at Catholics
and Jews,” the truth is that Levin—a Jew—was not only one of the
party’s founders but also an editor of its national organ and one of
the first Know Nothing members elected to Congress! In fact, Levin was
the first Jew elected to the U.S. Congress. Yet, Jewish literature
today never mentions Levin’s preeminent role in the anti-Catholic
agitation of America’s early years. Born in 1808 in Charleston, South
Carolina, which—as students of the Jewishcontrolled slave trade
know—was the Jewish population center of the United States for many
years, long before NewYork City emerged as such, Levin later moved
north, as an attorney, to Philadelphia where he published and edited
the Philadelphia Daily Sun. In 1844 he was elected to Congress from
Pennsylvania on the American (“Know Nothing”ticket) and held that post
for three terms until defeated for re-election in 1850. Levin died
ten years later. The fact that Levin was one of the pioneering
anti-Catholic agitators on American soil is interesting, to say the
least, since history books have been careful to “edit” the record as
far as Levin’s role in the Know Nothing movement is concerned. Levin’s
career has been consigned to the Orwellian “Memory Hole.” Instead we
always hear how both “the Protestants” and “the Catholics” have been
so hostile to “the poor Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution.”
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Les intérêts Rothschild derrière Donald Trump, par Michael Collins Piper In his memoir, Trump proudly described how in 1987 he bought his first casino interests when he purchased 93 percent of the voting stock in the Resorts International (RI) gambling concern. What Trump didn’t say was that RI was controlled by a clique of sordid, international big-money elements in alliance with the Jewish crime syndicate which was, in turn, collaborating with the CIA and Israel’s Mossad in an array of inter-connected money-laundering operations. The casinos laundered money for the CIA and the Mossad. In return, these agencies used their influence to ensure the mob remained protected from interference by law enforcement.Trump- American Hero Or Zionist Messiah?

The Settler's Prussia... "In the new state, the Kibbutzim have become a mere shadow of
themselves, and the central cities have become the centers of
civilization, envied and even hated by the periphery. That was the
situation until recently. It is now changing rapidly. On the morrow of
the 1967 Six-Day War, a new Israeli phenomenon raised its head: the
settlements in the newly occupied Palestinian territories. Their
founders were "national-religious" youth. During the days of the
Yishuv, the religious Zionists were rather despised. They were a small
minority. On the one hand, they were devoid of the revolutionary élan of
the secular, socialist Kibbutzim. On the other hand, real orthodox Jews
were not Zionists at all and condemned the whole Zionist enterprise as a
sin against God. (Was it not God who had condemned the Jews to live in
exile, dispersed among the nations, because of their sins?) But after
the conquests of 1967, the "national-religious" group suddenly became a
moving force. The conquest of the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem and all
the other biblical sites filled them with religious fervor. From being a
marginal minority, they became a powerful driving force. They created
the settlers’ movement and set up many dozens of new towns and villages
throughout the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. With the energetic
help of all successive Israeli governments, both left and right, they
grew and prospered. While the leftist "peace camp" degenerated and
withered, they spread their wings. The "national-religious" party, once
one of the most moderate forces in Israeli politics, turned into the
ultra-nationalist, almost fascist "Jewish Home" party. The settlers also
became a dominant force in the Likud party. They now control the
government. Avigdor Lieberman, a settler, leads an even more rightist
party, in nominal opposition. The star of the "center", Yair Lapid,
founded his party in the Ariel settlement and now talks like an extreme
rightist. Yitzhak Herzog, the leader of the Labor Party, tries feebly to
emulate them. All of them now use settler-speak. They no longer talk
of the West Bank, but use the settler language: "Judea and Samaria"."